I know you're wondering, what railroad? Well the simple fact is

that everybody has heard of the Underground Railroad, but not everyone

knows just what it was. Firstly, it wasn't underground, and it wasn't

even a railroad. The term "Underground Railroad" actually comes from a

runaway slave, who while being chased swam across a creek and was out

of the owner's sight. The owner said "...must have gone off on an

underground railroad." That man was Tice Davids, a Kentucky slave who

decided to live in freedom in 1831. The primary importance of the

Underground Railroad was the on going fight to abolish slavery, the

start of the civil war, and it was being one of our nation's first

The history of the railroad is quite varied according to whom

you are talking. Slavery in America thrived and continued to grow

because there was a scarcity of labor. Cultivation of crops on

plantations could be supervised while slaves used simple routines to

harvest them, the low price at which slaves could be bought, and

earning profits as a bonus for not having to pay hired work.

Slaves turned to freedom for more than one reason. Some were

decided to do something about it. To return the fire thrown at them by

even those states that were free. The North was angry about the

was safty over quickness. The slaves often zigzaged in their paths to

with charcoal. The following verse is "Left foot, peg foot traveling

seemed not quite adjusted to hard work, but more of giving orders. The

very quickly. Abolition Societies began to form, and along with

Act of 1793. This titled slaves as property of their owners and gave

from it says " the dead trees will show you the way." This was put in

brave slaves, was when it started. Slave owners in the South certainly

traveled on "surface linesthe actual railroads of this time. Lightly

treatment of the slaves and was not happy about owners being allowed

lead cruel salesmen and employers to take advantage of the blacks.

however, reports from Henry, after he "reached the end of the line",

Joe, drew a picture of a peg legg on the dead trees along the track

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